Electrical attachment.



H. C DESPARD.

ELECTRICAL ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED APR.24, I915.

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ELECTRICAL ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, rare.

Application filed April 24, 1915. Serial N 0. 23,631.

Z 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY C. DnsPARn,

a citizen of the United States, and resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State o1 New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Electric Attachments, of which the following, taken 1n connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an electric attachment adapted particularly to be applied to ironing boards, although susceptible of attachment to tables and other similar articles.

In the use of electrically heated sad irons where, as is usual, the iron is connected to a wall or ceiling socket by a flexible cord carrying the wires, the cord is always in the operators way, lying across and upon the board, interfering with the goods to be ironed and with the movements of the operator, and the primary object of this invention is to provide means for obviating this ditficulty by the use of an intermediate switch having means of securement to an ironing board, of such form and nature that the flexible cord hangs almost entirely oif the edge of the board, out of the way of the operator and out of contact with the goods to be ironed. A further advantage of the use of a switch adapted to be clamped to the board lies in the fact that the operator may at time shut oii or turn on the current to his iron. without moving from his position at the ironing board.

Other objects relate to the details of construction of and the combination of elements such as the combination under a single cover of an electric switch and an electric receptacle or socket, suitably connected for combined operation.

(it and further objects and uses will appear from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in whioh Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device as applied to an ironing board and assembled in combination with a sad iron for use. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the device. F 3 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a. cross section on line -l i, Fig. 8.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood, 1 have shown a complete and operable assemblage of elements combined for use, including an ordinary ironing board or table 1 and an electrical sad iron 2 of any usual and well known construction.

The sad iron is adapted to be connected by a flexible cord 3 to any suitable source of electric current supply and, in the assemblage shown, an interposed switch and socket inclosed within a casing i is illustrated, said switch operably and electrically connected by a flexible cord 5 to a wall socket 6. The construction of the switch and receptacle or socket may be of any usual and well known character.

The switch 7 embodies suitable terminals 8 and 9- to which the wires of the flexible cord 5 are attached. The socket 10 is separated from the switch by a suitable partition or block 11 of insulating material having openings for the passage of wires 12 and 13 suitably connected to the switch and to terminals -1-iand 15 of the socket 10.

The casing -4 is preferably formed of I metal or any other suitable and comparatively rigid strong material adapted to protect the inclosed portions of the switch and socket, which parts usually embody porcelain or other similar material as an insulating agent. The top and bottom 16 and 17 of the same are preferably removably secured to the side and end walls, the top 16 being shown as connected thereto by means of screws l8, and the bottom 17- hav ing a similar means of connection. The bottom 17 preferably has a portion -19- extending some distance beyond one end of the casing c, and the part -l9 is provided with a laterally projecting arm 20- extending at substantially right angles to the direction of projection of the part 19, and the arm 20 has its intermediate portion -21 bent downwardly at substantially right angles to the arm and its end portion 22 return bent in substantially a parallel vertical plane with the arm 20, but forming an acute angle with the intermediate portion 21 so as to gradually converge toward the parts 19 and --2-0- as .it extends from the portion 21- and having its tip 23 bent downwardly somewhat so as to diverge from the part 19 toward its point of termination.

The parts 19, -20-, 21-, 22 and 23 being formed of thin sheet metal, have a certain amount of resiliency, whereby the parts 22- and -23- may be sprung slightly from the parts 19 and +20 and will grasp tightly a portion of an ironing board or table with which they g be secured to the wall socket 6 and its V otherend extends through the wall of the casing 4 and the respective wires are se- 7 Q tcured to the terminals 8 and 9,

which terminals are in turn electrically con- I nected to the primary terminals of the vswitch 7. 'The switch is insulated from the socket 10 and its terminals 14 y and '15j' are connected to respective primary terminals of the switch 7+.

The sad iron 2+ has any usual and well known connection with the wires cartions '.1-9, ''20, -21 .QQ, 23 is slid over the end of the ironing V ing the'casing -l p the cord .3 extending from the plug 'riecl by the cord 3, and the opposite end 7 of the cord is provided with a plug -24 adapted for engagement with the socket 1'0t r The clamping device constituting the porand board, thes-pring nature of the parts hold rigidly in place so that f24l' lies off the side of the ironing board and the iron may be moved back and forth across the board without the necessity of the cord contacting with the goods, except possibly a very short portion adjacent its connection to' the iron, and the cord is entirely out of the way of the operator and the supply of current may be readily shut off or turned on as the iron may be too hot or too cold, by the operation of switch 7 through the usual button -25.

Although I have shown and described one particular construction, assemblage, form and manner of operation of the parts, I do not desire to limit myself to any particular construction, assemblage, form or method of operation, as many changes may be made in the details of such features without departing from the spirit of this invention as set forth in the appended claim.

What I claim is: In an apparatus of the class described, an

iron adapted to be electrically heated, a

socket, a switch element, clamping means in connection with said switch element for securing the same to an ironing table, flexible electric conductor connection between the switch element and the iron so that the iron may move in all directions relatively to the element, flexible electric conductor connection between the switch element and the socket so that the switch element may be positioned at any desired point relatively to the socket, said clamping means adapted to secure the's-witch element to an ironing table in such manner that the flexible conductor between the switch element and the iron hangs practically entirely off the edge of the HARRY GARDEN DESPARD.

Witnesses:

VIOLA HOW'LAND, HOWARD P. DENISON.

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